pictorial coffee table book “Tirumala – The Hill-Shrine Hindu God Lord Sri Venkateswara” which takes the reader by hand to Tirumala and shows it in all its splendor. In the foreword by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Atlanta and David Shulman, Jerusalem, who are the authority on Indian culture, give us a lucid introduction to the visual and textural pilgrimage to the divine hill-shrine Tirumala